May 14, 2013 – The BET Awards '13 announced its nominees today (May 14), and Drake came away with the most nods by far, landing a total of 12 nominations.

May 14, 2013 – Jack White's Third Man Records — the label that recently brought you a golden Great Gatsby vinyl and a vintage pop-up recording booth — is now teaming with the legenday Sun Records — the label that long ago brought you music by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many others — for an ongoing reissue series. On May 21, Third Man Records will begin re-releasing songs from the Sun catalog as 45-RPM 7-inch singles.

May 14, 2013 – Atoms for Peace haven't played live together since their 2010 appearance at Japan's Fuji Rock Festival, so it's understandable if the Amok collective — consisting of Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich, Flea, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco — need some time to warm up before their continent-hopping tour kicks off in July. Well, that's exactly what the five-piece have planned. Yorke confirmed in a statement today that Atoms for Peace will soon begin rehearsing for their upcoming slate of live shows. "So far this year, Atoms for Peace has been about Nigel and me doing stuff like this in clubs in some of our favorite capital cities," Yorke said in his statement, referring to the series of DJ gigs that he and Godrich played together earlier this year.

May 14, 2013 – CSS spilled "Hangover," the first taste of their upcoming Planta LP, back in April, and now the Brazilian electro-funk unit have paired the festive single with a video choreographed by Toni Basil (yes, that Toni Basil). The clip, co-directed by Basil and Matt Dilmore, opens with a few office drones watching CSS perform on a television. Immediately after the synths, guitars, and horns kick in, a dance party breaks out as a handful of white collar slaves let loose. Rare to see so many people thrilled to take part in a "Hangover." The São Paolo outfit also announced plans to tour North America in support of their impending LP. Cansei de Ser Sexy will drop Planta, the Dave Sitek-produced follow-up to 2011's La Liberación, on June 11.

May 14, 2013 – Domino Records just dropped its Dirty Projectors remix 12-inch, featuring three reworked versions of Swing Lo Magellan's subtly stunning "The Socialites," each done by Hot Chip's Joe Goddard, FaltyDL, and AlunaGeorge, respectively. We already heard Goddard's four-on-the-floor remake of the Amber Coffman-voiced track, and now we've got AlunaGeorge's sparkling take. The London electro-R&B duo adorn the wobbly song with shimmering chimes, hiccup effects, and fat-bottomed bounce. Stream it below.AlunaGeorge's debut full-length, Body Music, has reportedly been pushed back two weeks from July 1 to July 15 (via Pitchfork). 

May 14, 2013 – Vampire Weekend's masterful third album, the Essential Modern Vampires of the City, is officially out today (May 14). To promote their latest full-length, the New York rockers, fresh off appearances on Saturday Night Live and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, took part in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit today.

May 14, 2013 – Barbarossa, a.k.a. London-based singer-songwriter James Mathé, built a steady wave of goodwill after the release of 2008's acoustic-heavy Chemical Campfires, but for his latest LP, the upcoming Bloodlines, Mathé (who also perfoms as a member of José González's live band) decided to blaze a new trail for himself. "I loved the acoustic scene, but knew it was not all I was about,” he said recently. "So I dug out all my old casiotone keyboards, drum machines and analogue synths and just started writing." Which brings us to "Turbine," a jagged, synth-assisted groove marked by Mathé's soulful falsetto. It's the first taste off Barbarossa's Bloodlines, and it's available for streaming or download down below.

May 14, 2013 – Japanther have been churning out their own strain of grimy, hook-crammed art-punk for over a decade, and the Brooklyn duo's latest album, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart, extends their hot streak. Matt Reilly and Ian Vanek pack their latest full-length with 13 quick-hit tracks of fuzzy No Wave weirdness, all pureed together with an apocalyptic news broadcast, a monotone subway stop announcement, and a bevy of hummable, crusty melodies. Stream it in its entirety below.113459:playlist:Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart:

May 14, 2013 – The Weeknd is such a tease. Anticipation for Abel Tesfaye's Trilogy followup was already high back in January when he tweeted a photo of a computer folder labeled "Untitled 2013 Album." A couple months later, the Alt-R&B poster boy dropped said LP's title — Kiss Land — with no other information. Now, Tesfaye has shared a snippet of a brand new song, and when we say "snippet," we mean "snippet." A grainy YouTube clip titled "John Carpenter" contains no more than 20 seconds of murky new material. No word yet on whether the sample will make its way onto Kiss Land, but its late-night aura would brood comfortably on any Weeknd release.

May 14, 2013 – As one-half of Department of Eagles, Fred Nicolaus has embarked on psych-folk explorations with songwriting partner/former NYU roommate/Grizzly Bear member Daniel Rossen. But now Nicolaus is unveiling his own project, Golden Suits. This new venture's self-titled debut album will arrive on August 20, including "Didn't I Warn You," a slightly baroque, outdoorsy winner that blossoms from campfire verses to morning call choruses. Bask in its glory down below.